2019 WORLD ROWING MASTERS REGATTA / HUN, LAKE VELENCE & BUDAPEST ST E P A D ST E U P A D U 2019 WORLD ROWING MASTERS ROWING WORLD REGATTA 2019 LAKE VELENCE, LAKEBUD VELENCE, THE BOA ALW / HUN, LAKE VELENCE & B & LAKE VELENCE HUN, / B & LAKE VELENCE / A YS LOOK ON... LOOK YS 2019 WORLD ROWING MASTERS REGATTA 2019 WORLD ROWING MASTERS REGATTA A T P SIDE OF LIFE! E ST / 11-15 / ST TH S E PT OC MEMBERS AND CONTActS GREETINGS HonorarY COMMittee Tibor PETő - President of Hungarian Rowing Association Dear Rowing Friends, Tünde dr. SZABÓ - Secretary of State for Sports of the Ministry of Human Resources It is a great pleasure for the whole Hungarian rowing family to welcome you to the 2019 Alexandra DR. SZALAY-BOBROVNICZKY - Deputy Mayor for Human World Rowing Masters Regatta in Hungary. We have awaited the return of the world Affairs of Budapest rowing masters regatta to Hungary for over 20 years. Lake Velence with its stunning natural Zoltán TEssELY - Prime Ministerial Commissioner for Development resources and its location in the immediate proximity to the vibrant and beautiful Budapest of the St. László & Váli Valley Region is an ideal place for sport and leisure. Lake Velence and Budapest are thrilled to share its Gyöngyi Éva MésZÁROSNÉ HEGYI – Mayor of Sukoró beauty, heritage and culture with all the rowers and their families. We are ready to provide András KOSZTI - Mayor of Velence a unique experience for each of you. Welcome to Hungary! Organising ComMittee György JAKÓCS – Chairman Tibor PETő ST E P Gergely BUDA – Executive Director PRESIDENT, HUNGARIAN ROWING ASSOCIATION A D U János HERKULES– Event Director, Information Technology Éva SZÁNTÓ - President of the Jury Judit MÉSZÁROS - Deputy President of the Jury Borbála PIGNITZKY - FISA Relations Tibor PETő Csaba DEÁK - Venue and Infrastructure Gergely ORBÁN - Boat & Equipment rental / HUN, LAKE VELENCE & B & LAKE VELENCE HUN, / Zsófia dr. SZABADOS – Information Centre Dear Rowing Friends, Dániel MAHLER - Environment Officer Andrea dr. MATUSOVIts - Medical and First Aid I was very happy to accept when the Organising Committee and the Hungarian Rowing Krisztián NémEth - Public Relations & Media Association asked me to become the main patron of the 2019 World Rowing Masters Regatta. As we have expressed on several occasions sport is a strategic sector for the government of Hungary and the sport political goals are set accordingly, one component of which is EXecUtiVE Organising György JAKÓCS – Chairman to attract important sport events to Hungary. ComMittee Gergely BUDA – Executive Director The World Rowing Masters Regatta fits in this trend perfectly. Last time the same event János HERKULES – Event Manager was hosted by Hungary in 1996, and now after a long time we are able to show the rowing 2019 WORLD ROWING MASTERS REGATTA Csaba DEÁK – Venue and Infrastructure world, its organisations and athletes how good we can be at organising events. Sport in Hungary is developing dynamically and has a positive impact on nearly all aspects of our lives. An event like this means a lot to youth as well, young athletes have a chance to get a real impression about competing while watching experienced athletes, watching their races and might feel the spirit of athletes’ culture. It is a great opportunity for the people living around Lake Velence, because the athletes, their friends, fans and family members may bring a significant liveliness to the region even Hungarian Rowing Association after the summer high season. Tünde SZABÓ H-1146 Budapest, Istvánmezei út 1-3. There is a lot of work to be done before the start of the event on 11 September. Rowers Phone:(+36 70) 514 4403 need to train hard, organisers should work hard in order to deliver an event of the highest Email: [email protected] standards to the world of sport. Email (OC): [email protected] I wish all of you every success for this work. Email (Accommodation): [email protected] E-mail (Transportation): [email protected] Dr. Tünde SZABÓ Web: www.wrmr2019.hu STATE SECRETARY RESPONSIBLE FOR SPORT Dear Reader, Dear Sport Lovers, As a sports-loving person, from my very early age, I used to watch I was proud to receive the gratifying request of the Hungarian with great interest the beautiful long rowing boats first on the Rowing Association and the Organising Committee to be Patron waters of the Danube river, later on Lake Velence, gliding on the of the World Rowing Masters Regatta to be organised from 11 to waters in perfect rhythm with the clockwork precision of the pulls 15 September 2019, at the rowing course of Lake Velence. I was of the oars by the athletes sitting in the boats. also very pleased to accept their kind proposal. I do not deny that I often flirted with the idea of trying this sport, As the Mayor of Sukoró I can predict that the recent renewal of and although the water remained, instead of the paddles and the rowing course, as part of the coastal rehabilitation, will bring the boats, I opted for the ball, and decided to try my wings in the significant changes and positive development both for the village most successful Hungarian Olympic ball game - but I do like and of Sukoró and the whole region of Lake Velence, as well. All will ever since have been following rowing regattas and Hungarian be able to experience this in the autumn of 2019 when Hungary, a successes, of course. country in Europe, organises the World Rowing Masters Regatta on the northern shore of Lake Velence. I have vivid memories of Mariann Ambrus, the winner of several András KOSZTI Gyöngyi Éva HEGYI MésZÁROSNÉ ST E P medals on the world level in the second half of the seventies, However today in Hungary kayak and canoeing are more suc- A D ST E U nonetheless already as a child I had learned that Kornélia Pap had In addition to this academic development, this year we will start cessful, we hope that by hosting the 2019 World Rowing Masters P A been the most successful Hungarian athlete, who had won four the construction of a gymnasium for the reserve players of the Regatta we will be contributing to increasing the prestige of the D U European gold medals in the late fifties and early sixties. Alba Fehérvár basketball team, and the new facility will also be sport of rowing and soon the Sukoró rowing course will be the open for the physical education of students and for various sport venue for more prestigious sport events. In the recent decades I applauded the success of our first world for all activities. An investment to build a competition pool that champions, Tibor Pető and Ákos Haller in the double sculls, as fully complies with all the standards of the International Swimming Regardless of whether it is an individual or a team sport, sport is / HUN, LAKE VELENCE & B & LAKE VELENCE HUN, / well as the world champion lightweight double sculls crew, Tamás Association (FINA) may soon be started. a community builder: the love for sports is a driving force to in- B & LAKE VELENCE / Varga and Zsolt Hirling. And these are outstanding results even tegrate a community, while the individual performance is always by our standards - Hungary being a great sporting nation and It was a real breakthrough when in the spring of 2017 we could to recognised by that community. Speaking up for the benefits of having numerous Olympic and world champions in many sports. organise the first international drone competition in Hungary, for the regular exercise, the positive physiological effects of sports an audience of thousands of spectators and amidst significant and their undisputed contribution to personality development is Since my election as a city leader in 2014 one of my major goals media interest, and then in the summer - for the first time after certainly our duty. has been to turn the town of Velence into the multi-sport centre decades - the Tour de Hongrie professional cycling competition of the region. From the first moment it was obvious for me that in included Fejér county. Following this, the best U23 European triath- Those living around Lake Velence are particularly lucky since their order to achieve this – and beyond keeping up the existing mass lonists held their championships in Velence. The Tour de Hongrie usual sport activities are complemented with the joy of having easy 2019 WORLD ROWING MASTERS REGATTA sporting facilities - we must invite, organise and host world class race returned here in 2018, and as a new development we were access to water sports. I am specially delighted to know that this 2019 WORLD ROWING MASTERS REGATTA elite international sport events – an activity, which earlier was not the firsts in Fejér County to host one of the pre-runs of the National year our children will have the chance to feel the atmosphere of a typical in our town. Today I can proudly announce that we have Gallop Race. The Race was a huge success, straightaway. world class competition, which may bring about growing interest achieved these objectives. of young people for the world of water sports. In the light of the above, I was truly pleased to learn that this year Already in 2015 Velence hosted one of the most important events the World Rowing Masters Regatta will take place on the rowing Our respect and thanks to the masters athletes participating in of the traditional, so called “Olympic Pentathlon” movement – a course, renewed as part of the rehabilitation works of the banks the regatta, for they represent what is called true commitment to non-competitive sport, which still moved huge crowds and drew of the lake.